Which is fine, I suppose, and, of course, Marvel’s prerogative, but it feels a little petty and internecine. While I don’t have the time or energy to keep up with the Marvel universe, I am given to understand that the Inhumans are getting a major boost due to their upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film, being posited as the MCU’s answer to mutants (because 20th Century Fox will not give the franchise up, despite Sony and Disney managing to play nice enough to get Spider-Man into Captain America: Civil War).

This collection also includes Kamala learning that her superpowers derive from her Inhuman heritage. Luckily for all of us, it’s a fantastic book. Marvel is important, and would be important, even if it was a middle-of-the-road book. Marvel is also well-executed, as if that doesn’t go without saying and as if representation has to be snuck in like trying to get a dog to take its meds, but you know what? Yeah.

My anxiety is urging me to qualify that statement by pointing out how Ms. Marvel a wildly important and useful comic. It shouldn’t be so radically wonderful to see something as simple as a girl talk to her imam and receive uplift and support, but it is, and that makes Ms. And I really love seeing how Kamala’s home life and religion is a source of inspiration and strength for her. (Do the kids still squee? Are they still calling themselves trash? What are they doing and why did they regress back to weird elaborate ship name conventions? Grumble grumble outta my dumpster.)īut Kamala herself is still a righteous, nerdy ray of sunshine. I will say that some of the writing’s teenagisms are starting to slightly grate and date on me, but I have a sneaking suspicion that this is both because Internet culture moves so quickly that two years can feel like an eternity and because I have entered my next evolutionary stage as a fandom old. Marvel (I especially love the way he draws Kamala’s prominent nose), but Adrian Alphona’s teen indie movie in a bottle style is still the most perfect complement to G. Wyatt plays nicely in the quirkier house style of Ms. Marvel: No Normal-unsurprisingly, as the only major difference in the creative team is Jacob Wyatt stepping in to illustrate issues 6 and 7. Generation Why keeps up the same high level of quality seen in Ms. Specifically, saving the day from the Inventor, the strange cockatiel-human hybrid who has been kidnapping teenage runaways for assuredly nefarious purposes.

Marvel, Jersey City’s own hometown hero, navigating the usual trials and tribulations of a teenage superhero-hiding her identity to protect her loved ones, interfacing with the larger world of superheroics, and, of course, saving the day. Marvel: Generation Why (or issues 6 through 11) finds newly minted Ms. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, and Jacob Wyatt

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